San Rafael boy saved dad after Tahoe snowmobile crash

A 9-year-old San Rafael boy is being credited with saving his father, who was trapped under a snowmobile Sunday after a crash in North Lake Tahoe, according to KTVU.

Fourth-grader Bode Beirdneau told the San Francisco station that he and his father, J.T., were in a remote area and couldn’t get cell phone reception. When the older Beirdneau got pinned under the snowmobile, Bode took off by himself to get help.

Bode eventually found someone with an emergency radio and led rescuers to his dad, who was hospitalized but was expected to recover.

“I was pretty nervous. It was a lot of pressure on me to try to get someone,” he told KTVU. “A lot of people were like ‘Wow! You saved your dad.’”